NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: With a fifty-year plus career as an artist, Paula Martiesian has been painting her entire adult life. A native Rhode Islander, she attended RISD both as a child and later as an adult, graduating in 1976. The former exhibitions curator for the […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Richard Fishman is a sculptor whose work is represented in numerous private and public collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Skirball Museum, the Rose Art Museum, Brandies University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Over the course of his […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: Philip Jamoulis Jameson (1930-2022) was a large format black and white photographer who specialized in natural landscapes and the built environment. He worked in Italy, Greece, Switzerland, the American West and New England. In his later years he enjoyed working primarily in […]
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Nancy Friese obtained her BS in nursing from the University of North Dakota, in the state where she was born and maintains a farmstead studio. She changed her career course and studied painting and printmaking at different venues, culminating in an MFA from the Yale University School of Art in 1980. Primarily a landscape painter […]
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NetWorks Rhode Island and the Chazan Collection Exhibition, WaterFire Arts Center (2024) Bio: I’ve always been drawn to objects. Initially it was the structure of furniture or historical architecture which led me to the world of sculpture. Throughout my career I’ve experimented with a wide range of materials always returning to a focus on clay […]
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